John C.C. Sanders

John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders (4 April 1840-21 August 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Globe Tavern at the age of 24, making him one of the youngest Confederate generals to die in the war.

Biography
John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1840, and he was a University of Alabama student when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. Sanders enlisted in the Confederate States Army when the war broke out, and he commanded the 11th Alabama in the major battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia after the Battle of Fair Oaks in 1862. He was wounded at Glendale, Second Bull Run, wounded in the face by debris from an exploding shell at Antietam, and wounded at Gettysburg, and Sanders was promoted to Brigadier-General for his service at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Sanders fought at Cold Harbor and Petersburg, leading the Confederate counterattack at The Crater, and he was shot through both thighs at Globe Tavern during the fighting for the Weldon Railroad, bleeding to death within minutes.